There are 2 main definitions of gobo in English:

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noun

The Japanese do not often cook gobo as a vegetable in its own right, preferring to combine it with other vegetables.

I actually found myself liking an improbable cream-cheese-and-smoked-salmon concoction called a Pink Lady, which gained some street cred with the pungent crunch of salmon skin and batons of the mysterious root called gobo.

Finally, burdocks and their edible roots are also found within the family, both the Japanese variety, often referred to as gobo, and the wild American variety.